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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the roads begin climbing into the Black Mountains as the Okies traveled west?
(a) Whitney, California.
(b) Santa Fe, New Mexico.
(c) Anderson, Arizona.
(d) Kingman, Arizona.

2. What danger was in the air created by the wind in the dust storms?
(a) Static electricity.
(b) Snow.
(c) Hail.
(d) Chemicals.

3. What was the first major town in New Mexico crossed by the Okies as they headed west?
(a) Roswell.
(b) Albuquerque.
(c) Tucumcari.
(d) Santa Fe

4. How many families a week were losing their farms to the banks in the Panhandle in 1932?
(a) 200.
(b) 500.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 1,000.

5. What was the second northern Texas town passed by the Okies as they headed west?
(a) Amarillo.
(b) Shamrock.
(c) Dallas.
(d) Longhorn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Many of the squatters in Okie communities lived in shacks made of what?

2. Where did Rosalene Long's family get caught in a flood as they headed west?

3. People in California during the Dust Bowl period made the observation that there were more Okies than there were what?

4. What is one of the insults described in the text which were used against Okie children?

5. According to the ideas of the Okies, it was big news in California if someone died before the age of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the Okies believe about California? How did they envision it there?

2. Where did many families head once they arrived in California? What cities were looking for farmhands?

3. What costs did the Californians believe the Okies were driving up? What discrimination did the Okies face in the west?

4. Where did the Okie children face some hope in the end of Chapter 4: "Okies, Go Home!"?

5. What diseases did the Okies suffer from in California? Why?

6. How did the arrival of the Okies relate to immigration issues faced by Americans today?

7. What made things worse for the Okie farmers in 1931?

8. How did the Okies travel west? What was their principle means of transportation?

9. What did the Oklahoma Panhandle look like by 1936? What change took place at that time?

10. How did the Okies make money while they were traveling west?

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